fyi...AA flight 4959 diverted from LaGuardia to Dulles per Fox news. No word on reason yet.
I try not to read EOM, as it gets me going even more than normal (and that's saying something..)
I still hope (and pray) that EOM is just some kid playing around. Note that the CN&Y board where he posts does not require ANY kind of registration, so ANYONE can post there and "claim" they are EOM. The only way to tell the "real" EOM is by IP (which shows up with every post). Problem is, with proxies, a clever person could even fake the IP. (And this is apparently what EOM does to "hide" from the authorities).
The shelter issue is causing MUCH friction here in the household. My wife thinks I am nuts. Maybe I am. But the PROBABILITY of a WMD attack to me seems very likely. So, I've had to think.."what if.." a lot. The good news is I'm only near one major city. The bad news is..I'm 21 miles from a major city. It's not LA, NYC, Washington DC. But it's still apparently at "orange" according to the radio here yesterday. (Why?) Also..NEST was here recently, which doesn't give me the warm fuzzies.
Using the tool I posted the link to, I figured out the Rads we'd pull in if a suitcase device went off 21 miles away. Not good, even at low kilotonage. We simply couldn't hang out here for very long. Megaton - we're dead very quickly.
Here's a good link on shelters and how much radiation your body can handle before different breakdowns/illnesses start to occur:
http://www.radshelters4u.com/index2.htm#1m If you look at the tables there + the program I posted earlier, you can figure out if you can stay put or have to hightail it away from any event. I also found out that 8 inches of concrete reduces the radiation level by half 2X over. (So, it goes from 100R->50R->25R). BUT..25R over 10 hours is enough to put you at serious risk of health problems and a low possibility of death. So, staying "put" is not an option - even if we're in a room with 8'' of concrete walls all around in our basement. Bummer..I supposed I could go 16'' walls, but then it'd be 100R->50R->25R->12R->6R. Hmmm..much better, but a WHOLE lot more expensive.